This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Homophobic hate crimes reported to police'.

Nick Henderson

Freedom of Information Section

Nottinghamshire Police

Telephone:- 0115 9672507

Facsimile:- 0115 9672896

E-mail: [email address]

4th November 2008

Dear Nick

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Reference No: FOI08-1826

Your request is

[1a] the total number of homophobic hate crimes reported to you in

the last year

[b] the last three years

[2a] the total number of those hate crimes that were reported to

the Crown Prosecution Service in the last year

[b] the last three years.

Under S 1 (3) (a) of the FOIA, I require clarification of your request.

Under S 1 (3) of the FOIA -

“Where a public authority -

  1. reasonably requires further information in order to identify and locate the information requested, and

  2. has informed the applicant of that requirement,

Please specify what you mean by `hate crimes'

Nottinghamshire Police is not required to comply with your request until further information has been supplied. Therefore the 20 working days has stopped until sufficient information has been received.

Yours sincerely

Coryn Reynolds

Freedom of Information Officer